The Inaug-uration of 

Wilbur Nesbitt Masoo 

Baker University 
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The Inauguration of 

Wilbur Nesbitt Mason, A.M., D.D 

as President of 

Baker University 

Baldwin, Kansas 




September twenty-third to twenty-sixth 

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Outline of Proceedings 




HE inauguration of Rev. Wilbur Nesbitt Mason, A.M., 
D.D., as the sixteenth president of Baker University- 
took place, with all the ceremony incident to such an 
event, at Baldwin, Kas., September 23 to 26, 1911. 
This series of exercises was of peculiar significance 
to Kansas Methodism and marks the opening of a 
new era of growth and development in the history of this in- 
stitution. The fact that the chief executive of the nation, Presi- 
dent William H. Taft, graced the occasion with his presence, 
spending the entire day in Baldwin, shows something of the 
growing importance of this college and the Christian ideals for 
which it stands. The memory of these four crowded days, cul- 
minating in the stately and impressive service of inauguration, 
will long linger as an inspiration and incentive to larger service 
in the memory of those privileged to attend. 



Saturday 

On this opening day guests crowded every incoming train. The 
exercises of this evening had been given into the charge of the 
student body, and right well did they show the Baker spirit. 
Early in the evening the students gathered in procession and 
with pennants and banners proceeded to the home of the presi- 
dent-elect. As a guest of the students he was escorted to a decor- 
ated carriage and, drawn by picked members of the various 
student organizations, was taken in state to the gymnasium, 
where an interesting program was carried out. Each class and 
literary society of the university presented one number, repre- 
senting some historic scene or bit of college life in vivid form. 
The interest of the evening was intense and sustained, culminat- 



ing a number of beautiful tableaux given by the senior class, 
representing the four chief epochs of American history. 

Sunday 

Sunday brought to Baldwin one of those rare autumn days 
that make life in Kansas a joy. At io:^o in the morning Presi- 
dent Taft arrived in his special train. A representative com- 
mittee met him at the station and at once the President and his 
party proceeded to the First Methodist Epsicopal church for 
morning worship. The services at the church were in charge 
of the pastor, Dr. R. B. Kester, and formed their appropriate 
place in the program of the week. The inaugural sermon was 
preached by President Francis J. McConnell of DePauw Uni- 
versity, who took as his text Isaiah 40:30, "But they that wait 
upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount 
up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary, 
and they shall walk not faint." With simplicity and clear- 
ness Dr. McConnell presented in a striking way the climax 
presented by the text. In any field of endeavor the great 
accomplishment is not the glory of enraptured vision or burst of 
zeal that stirs the soul, but the patient plodding day by day in 
the homely path of our common life, "to walk and not faint." 



Sunday Morning Worship 
Eleven O'clock 



Organ, Toccata and Fugue in F Bach 

Andante religiose lores 

Palms Faure 

Hymn No. 106, "O Worship the King'' Haydn 

Apostles Creed 

Prayer 

The Reverend Reese Bowman Kester, D. D. 

Anthem, 'The Roseate Hues of Early Dawn" Burno Huhn 

The roseate hues of early dawn, O for a heart that never sins; 

The brightness of the day; O for a soul wash'd white! 

The crimson of the sunset sky, O for a voice to praise our king, 

How fast they fade away! Nor weary day or night. 

O for the pearly gates of heav'n! Here faith is ours, and heav'ly hope, 

O for the golden, golden floor! And grace to lead us high'r; 

O for the Sun of righteousness, But there are perfectness and peace, 

That setteth nevermore. Beyond our best desire. 

The highest hopes we cherish here; O by Thy love and anguish, Lord, 

How fast they tire and faint ! And by Thy life laid down. 

How many a spot defiles the robe Grant that we fall not from Thy grace. 

That wraps an earthly saint! Nor cast away our crown! 

O for the pearly gates of heav'n! 

O for the golden, golden floor! 
O for the Sun of righteousness 

That setteth nevermore! 

Responsive Reading:, The Nature and Eternity of Wisdom. 

I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling 
And I find out knowledge and discretion. 

Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge : 

I have understanding; I have might. 
By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. 
By me princes rule, even all the judges of the earth. 

/ love them that love me; 

And those that seek me diligently shall find me. 



Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way. 
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning. 

When he established the heavens, I was there, 

When he marked out the foundations of the earth; 
Then was I with him, as a master workman, 
Rejoicing always before him. 

Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me; 

For blessed are they that keep my ways. 
For whoso findeth me findeth life, 
And shall obtain favor of Jehovah. 

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul. 
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom, 

And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 

Gloria Patri Meineke 

The Gospel 
The Offering: 

Off er tory. Adagio Mailly 

Solo, "O Lord, Be Merciful" Bartlett 

Mrs. David Grosch. 

With broken heart, and contrite sigh. Nor alms, nor deeds that I have done, 

A trembling sinner. Lord, I cry; Can for a single sin atone; 

Thy pard'ning grace is rich and free: To Calvary alone I flee: 

O God be merciful to me! O God, be merciful to me! 

And when, redeemed from sin and hell. 
With all the ransomed throng I dwell, 
My raptured song shall ever be: 
God hath been merciful to me. 

The Inaugfural Sermon 

The Reverend Francis J. McConnell, Ph. D., LL. D. 

Hymn No. 91, "Guide Me, O Great Jehovah" Hastings 

Doxologry 
Benediction 

Postlude, "Pomp and Circumstance" Elgar 

Mr. Ernest F. Jores, Organist. 
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University Service 



SUNDAY AFTERNOON, THREE O'CLOCK. 



Prelude, Fantasie in D minor Lemmons 



Processional Hymn Baring-Gould 



Onward, Christian Soldiers ! 

Marching as to war. 
With the cross of Jesus 

Going on before, 
Christ the royal Mastei*, 

Leads against the foe; 
Forward into battle. 

See his banners go ! 

Refrain : 
Onward, Christian Soldiers, 

Marching as to war, 
With the cross of Jesus 

Going on before. 

At the sign of triumph 

Satan's host doth flee; 
On, then, Christian soldiers, 

On to victory! 
Hell's foundations quivei* 

At the shout of praise; 
Brothers, lift your voices. 

Loud your anthems raise. 



Like a mighty army 

Moves the church of God; 
Brothers's we are treading 

Where the saints have trod; 
We are not divided. 

All one body we. 
One in hope and doctrine. 

One in charity. 

Cfowns and thrones may perish, 

Kingdoms rise and wane. 
But the church of Jesus 

Constant will remain; 
Gates of hell can never 

'Gainst that church prevail; 
We have Christ's own promise, 

And that cannot fail. 

Onward, then, ye people ! 

Join our happy throng, 
Blend with ours your voices 

In the triumph-song; 
Glory, laud, and honor 

Unto Christ the King, 
This through countless ages 

Men and angels sing. 



Hymn No. 180, "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name". .Shruhsole 



Prayer. 



The Reverend Frank K. Sanders, Ph. D. 



Anthem, "Recessional" De Koven 



The Choir. 



God of our fathers, known of old, 
Lord of our far-flung battle line. 

Beneath whose awful hand we hold 
Dominion over palm and pine: 

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 

Lest we forget, lest we forget ! 

The tumult and the shouting dies; 

The captains and the kings depart; 
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, 

An humble and a contrite heart: 
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 
Lest we forget, lest we for'get ! 



Far-called our navies melt away, 

On dune and headland sinks the fire; 

Lo, all our pomp of yesterday 
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! 

Judge of the nations, spare us yet. 

Lest we forget, lest we forget ! 

If drunk with sight of power, we loose 
Wild tongues that have not thee in awe. 

Such boasting as the Gentiles use 
Or lesser br'eeds without the law ; 

Lord God of Hosts be with us yet, 

Lest we forget, lest we forget ! 



For heathen heart that puts her trust 
In reeking tube and iron shard; 

All valiant dust that builds on dust. 
And guarding calls not thee to guard ; 

For frantic boast and foolish word. 

Thy mer'cy on thy people. Lord ! 



Responsive Reading:, "The Nature and Price of Wisdom." 

—Psalter, Page 83 

The Gloria Patri Meineke 

Presentation of His Excellency, Walter R» Stubbs, Governor 

Address, William Howard Taft, LL* D., President of the 
United States. 

Hymn No. 702, "America" Carey 

Benediction 

Postludc, March Heroique Tschaikowsky 



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The service on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in many ways \. 

was the most notable ever held in the city of Baldwin. Every 'I 

inch of space on the gymnasium floor was crowded with an or- 1 

derly and reverent multitude. The distinguished guests gathered v' 

in the Case Memorial library and, led by President Taft and I 

President-elect Mason, walked through a double line of students |. 

to the gymnasium. In compliment to the university President % 

Taft wore a Baker hood representing the degree of doctor of laws. ' 

After a short introductory service, in which the invocation was j 

offered by Dr. Frank K. Sanders of Washburn College, the presi- I 
dent was introduced by the governor of the state, Walter R. 
Stubbs. 

The address of the governor was a felicitous one, indeed. 

After a few complimentary words concerning the work of the k 

university and after extending a welcome to its new executive ?^ 

head on behalf of the state, he presented as the speaker of the i 

occasion the President of the United States, William Howard t 
Taft. 

The address of President Taft was notable in many ways. 
In the quietness of the afternoon he turned to a moral question I 
and delivered an address of profound and far-reaching influence J 
on the subject of the world's peace. In a way that compelled 
belief in the sincerity and lofty aim of his purpose Mr. Taft ;. 
presented the possibilities of a higher type of national and inter- 
national life in which Christian ideals might have larger sway | 
and spoke in favor of the pending arbitration treaties between | 
the United States on the one hand and Great Britain and France I 
on the other. It was an eloquent plea from a Christian states- | 
man that this nation be leader in a world-wide movement to ) 
abolish war from the earth, and he pleaded for the ratification .< 
of these treaties, not that there was danger of war with the two :> 
nations in question, but rather by these agreements to show other 
nations the pathway to a world-wide peace. 

His address was as follows: i 

President Taft's Address. ' 

I am delighted to be here in Baldwin, and at Baker Uni- 
versity, on the occasion of the inaugural of your president, and 
I join with Governor Stubbs in wishing for the university and 
the president continued and greater usefulness. I shall not go i 

with Governor Stubbs into a description of the superlatives with 

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respect to Kansas and Douglas County and Baldwin, because I did 
not find that there was any dispute in this community as to what 
he said. In going about the country in a trip like this, one is 
sometimes doubtful as to the subject that he ought to select for 
an address. But it seems to me that on Sunday afternoon, and in 
the presence of a university, it is not inappropriate to discuss the 
question of national and international peace. I am quite willing 
to admit the virtues of war if we must have it, and in the pres- 
ence of a Kansas audience, I must admit that Kansas was born in 
war and born of war, and that the virtues of her citizens have 
continued to be pre-eminent in independence and courage of opin- 
ion, because of the early trials that her pioneers and her settlers 
had to undergo in bearing the crisis and the issue of a nation. 

I am willing to admit too, that war contributes greatly to 
stories of heroism that form ideals and make human character 
better. I am willing to admit that there are sometimes in the 
history of the world when it would seem as if nothing but war 
could accomplish the progress that has been accomplished, but in 
the war of independence nothing but war would have separated 
us from Great Britain and given us the opportunity to go on and 
make our glorious future. Probably, in Kansas one may well 
say it was quite impossible to cut out the cancer of slavery with- 
out war. War is made the subject of poetry. War furnishes 
many instances that commend themselves to man to show what 
man and woman can do under trying circumstances and to make 
character. But my friends, with all these things, there goes with 
war another picture — the suffering, the cruelty, the bloodiness, 
the low ambitions and the corruption that follow in its train. 
The agony of spirit that mothers and sisters and daughters have 
to bear, and the general demoralization that follows where law 
is silent and nothing but force rules; and therefore, I do not 
hesitate to say that it is possible to get along without war and 
to derive our ideals from other sources than that of battering 
men's heads and taking men's lives. But there is no court in 
which international controversies can yet be solved. Nations 
are going on to prepare themselves for war at any moment. 
Europe is an armed camp. The armaments on sea increase from 
year to year, and nothing but bankruptcy seems to be a cause 
for their diminution. It is true that the weight of armament, I 
mean the cost of it, perhaps prevents war by the thought on the 
part of those who have to pay the bills, that the bills would be 

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trebled if we had actual war, but that is not the best means of 
avoiding war. We have had a lot of treaties, called arbitration 
treaties, with the countries of Europe, in which we have agreed 
that we will arbitrate all questions save questions of national 
honor and vital interest, and they were supposed to be a step 
in the right direction. But it is left to each nation to say, under 
those treaties, what it regards as a question of vital interest or a 
question of national honor, and therefore, the declarations in the 
treaties are written in water, because if any issue arises of real 
importance it is easy enough for either nation which dislikes the 
arbitration to say, oh this concerns our vital interest, or this con- 
cerns our national honor. There are those who object to the sub- 
mission of questions of our national honor to arbitration. I con- 
fess myself wholly unable to agree with them, and I want to put 
that question to the American people and invoke their decision as 
to whether it is not a step in Christian civilization to agree to 
submit to an impartial board of arbitration any question that con- 
cerns our national honor, rather than to submit it to the arbitra- 
tion of battle to what was called in the old common law, the 
wager of battle. What does battle decide? Does it decide any- 
thing except that our guns, if we win, and our battalions, if we 
win, are stronger than those of the enemy ? Does it really settle 
the rights of the controversy? Would you not rather submit to 
men who are supposed to know what national honor is a question 
of your national honor, than go in and have it decided by battle, 
especially if you happen to lose? Is there any real virtue in a 
decision that arises from a contest of force? Under those con- 
ditions I cannot see for the world of me, why we should not agree 
to submit, and the most important questions are the ones that 
are most likely to lead to war, and therefore, it is most important 
that they should be submitted to arbitration in order that we may 
avoid war. We will never avoid a continued armament. We 
have tried it. We have asked the nations of Europe to disarm at 
the Hague, but it was always postponed and it always will be 
postponed, for what reasons ? It will be postponed because there 
is no other method of settling international controversies those 
nations can depend upon, and the only way we can hope to avoid 
a war in the future is to provide some substitute by which those 
issues can be settled peaceably. Now my ideal is that we shall 
have an arbitral court for all nations of the world, constituted 
by general agreement, into which any nation may summon any 

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other nation to answer to a complaint of injury, and that the 
jurisdiction be established by agreement, and that the nation go 
in whether it will or not at the time and there answer to the 
judgment of that tribunal. When you have such a court, then 
you will have war cease. You will have armament reduced, 
and you will have a condition toward which all Christian civil- 
ization ought to tend. 

I gave some expression to some sentiment like this in two 
meetings of peace associations. The bill for the increase in the 
armament of the British Navy came up in Parliament and Sir 
Edward Grey, the foreign minister, took occasion to comment on 
those remarks of mine indicating a willingness on the part of the 
executive of our government to make a treaty in which it should 
be agreed that all questions, even including those of vital interest 
and national honor, should be submitted to arbitration, and he 
expressed the opinion, on behalf of His Majesty's government, 
that England would be delighted to go into such a treaty. Mr. 
Balfour, the leader of the opposition, gave expression to similar 
views, and in England there arose a feeling in favor of those 
arbitration treaties thus proposed that I suppose has not found 
an equal in its intense expression in any other movement in 
England for years. 

When I sat down at the dinner where I spoke, Mr. Jusserand, 
the French Ambassador sat near me, and he said, "We will make 
a treaty of that sort with you, if you desire," so that furnished 
two countries with whom we might make a treaty of this general 
character. It met a response in this country and Mr. Knox went 
on to negotiate with Mr. Bryce and Mr. Jusserand to make a 
treaty that should accomplish the purpose. The treaties were 
made, and then were submitted to the Senate. The Foreign Re- 
lations Committee of the Senate considered the treaties and ob- 
jected to one important clause. That is the majority of the com- 
mittee did, and made a report against it. The minority supported 
the treaties. Then the Senate very properly, as it seems to me, 
directed the publication of the treaties and freed them from the 
obligation of confidence, and so the treaties are published and 
are known to all men for the purpose I doubt not of popular 
discussion. And I am here to present the cause of the treaties 
from one end of the treaty to the other, to explain the objections, 
and if I can, to answer them, and to reason them away and 
bring about, if possible, a ratification by the Senate of those two 

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agreements, which, if ratified, I believe will constitute a very 
substantial step toward the arbitral court of permanent peace 
which I have pictured. 

The treaties are exactly alike. Let us take the treaty with 
Great Britain. It contains a recital that the treaties heretofore 
of arbitration have excepted questions of vital interest and na- 
tional honor, and recite a determination and purpose on the part 
of the United States and Great Britain to abolish all causes of 
war between them and especially to omit the exceptions which 
have heretofore been included in their treaties of arbitration. 
The first clause contains a provision by which both countries 
agree to submit all justiciable questions to a board of arbitra- 
tion, either at the Hague or else constituted by special agreement, 
and then the clause goes on to define what justiciable is. It says 
that justiciable differences are those which can be settled and 
decided on principles of law and equity, that is, of course, domes- 
tic and international law and equity, and that when such ques- 
tions arise they shall be submitted to a tribunal by special agree- 
ment to be determined on by the executive with the concurrence of 
the Senate, as to the method of submission and so on, and the 
scope of the submission. 

The second clause provides for the establishment of what is 
called a Joint High Commission. That Joint High Commission 
is to consist of three citizens or subjects of either party. Three 
citizens of the United States and three subjects of the King of 
Great Britain, to be selected by the President of the United 
States on the one hand, and, if Congress shall so desire, with the 
confirmation of the Senate, or indeed if the Senate shall so de- 
sire, with the confirmation of the Senate. This board of com^ 
missioners, this joint high commission of six, is to take up every 
difference that arises between the two countries that cannot be 
settled by negotiation, and to consider it for a year if either party 
desires it. That delay of a year is for the purpose of abating the 
hot feeling of indignation that is so generally engendered in ques- 
tions of this kind, it being hoped that a year would enable every- 
body to settle down to a second sober thought with regard to the 
matter. Then the commission is to meet and recommend a settle- 
ment if they can, and what they recommend is advisory only. But 
there is one point which they may decide conclusively, if the vote 
is unanimous or if the vote is five to one, and that is when there 
is a difference between two parties as to whether the issue aris- 

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ing is within the first clause, that is, is justifiable and is one 
which both parties are bound to submit to arbitration. That is 
left to the Joint High Commission to decide if the parties differ. 
It is a question, as you see, of jurisdiction. It is a question 
whether the treaty includes this particular instance of difference 
which has arisen between the two parties. There is where the 
Senate, or rather the majority of the Senate Committee makes ob- 
jection. It says that it is abdicating the functions of the Senate for 
it to agree in advance that some other body shall decide whether 
the question which has arisen is justifiable and ought to be ar- 
bitrated. With great respect for those of the Senate, who take 
a different view, it seems to me that this position cannot be sus- 
tained. I do not see why, if the Senate can agree to abide arbi- 
tration as to any international question as it has asserted the right 
to do time and time again, in the future, why it may not consent 
to abide the arbitration with respect to the question whether a 
difference which has arisen between two nations is not justifiable, 
according to the definition of the treaty. It is only the question of 
the construction of a treaty. The question of the construction of 
a treaty is a class of questions which is met common in interna- 
tional disputes, and if we cannot consent in advance to submit the 
construction of a treaty to a board of arbitration, we cannot sub- 
mit to anything of importance between nations; and I think this 
most important because if the Senate cannot consent to submit a 
question of jurisdiction like that to a board of arbitration, then 
we are in the second rank or third rank of nations in that regard. 
Norway and Sweden have made a treaty in which they have ex- 
cepted certain things and agreed to arbitrate certain things, but 
they leave to the board of arbitration to decide whether the ques- 
.tions when they arise come within the class to be arbitrated, or 
the class not to be arbitrated. If we, because of the limited pow- 
ers of the Senate, are not able to enter into such a general treaty, 
then we defeat the expectation of the whole world. The world 
looks to us, a nation of 90 million people, rich, powerful, inde- 
pendent and free from foreign entangling alliances, to lead on 
this matter of peace, to lead on the movement that Christian 
civilization demands for the abolition of war, and I think it would 
be a step backward and most detrimental, not only to the inter- 
ests of our nation, but to the interests of the world at large, if 
there should be found in the constitution a restriction that pre- 
vents us from being in the very van of Christian civilization in 
bringing about peace. 

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There is a good deal of trouble about national honor and 
the settlement of it by a court. There used to be a great deal of 
trouble about personal honor and it used to be that men of sober 
sense thought that if somebody insulted them, it was their busi- 
ness to put themselves in the way of a bullet from the man who 
insulted them. Now that was the duello. We have gotten over 
that. If there is a difference between you and another man that 
involves a question of honor you can settle it in court or you can 
settle it by arbitration if you will, but you are not going out with 
a revolver nowadays and put yourself on a field of honor and let 
him kill you because he insulted you. It was as illogical as pos- 
sible. We have abolished it with reference to individuals, why 
cannot we abolish it with reference to nations? 

I am the last man to depreciate the importance of the Senate 
of the United States. I believe it is a very necessary cog in our 
government. It has been most useful in the past and will con- 
tinue to be useful in the future. It has legislative and also execu- 
tive functions. It confirms the appointments of the President 
that Congress says shall be confirmed. Two-thirds of the mem- 
bers have to concur in a treaty, in the ratification of the action of 
the President before the treaty shall become binding on the coun- 
try, and I respect and welcome the sensitiveness on the part of 
members of the Senate that they shall not part with any of the 
functions or powers that are given them by the constitution of 
the United States. But I venture to think that it is wise for them 
not so to hamper their action by a narrow construction of the con- 
stitution that shall interfere with the progress of the country and 
the progress of the world. It is said to be their duty to preserve 
their prerogatives. It is. We have different branches in the gov- 
ernment, and we depend upon those in whose hands is the custody 
of those branches to defend them so as to maintain their inde- 
pendence, one of the other, but it does not help the power of the 
Senate to call it a prerogative. They have not any different pre- 
rogative from the prerogative of the executive or the prerogative 
of the House of Representatives. Prerogative means power, that 
is all, and the power of the executive in respect to treaties is that 
of initiating and making the treaty and the Senate of concurring 
in it. If tlie executive has the right to agree to a treaty, the 
Senate has the right to agree. If the Senate cannot bind itself by 
future agreement to arbitrate a question of jurisdiction, as this is, 
then the executive cannot agree in the same way. Of course, 

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there is a question not only of power but of advisability. The 
majority of the Senate Committee said that they thought that this 
Joint High Commission would be a breeder of war. I don't quite 
understand that. It seems to me that the delay of a year with ne- 
gotiations between them will certainly abate the desire for war. 
Time makes a great deal of difference in that regard. It sobers 
men. It gives them sense. In the present trouble in Europe, if 
they had a joint high commission for consideration, I think it 
would help, and if either party was entitled to delay the action 
for a year, I am certain it would help. Human natiu-e is the same 
the world over. When a thing gets a little stale, we do not have 
nearly so much interest in it, and even an international issue will 
pale if you wait 365 days to have it decided. 

Now, my friends, I have come to you representing a great 
university, representing a great state, to plead the cause of the 
present arbitration treaties. If the third clause is stricken out, 
then it loses its binding character, because it leaves then to either 
party to decide what is justifiable, and if either party concludes 
that it does not want to go into an arbitration, why it can back 
out on the ground that its view of the term justifiable does not 
include the questions which have arisen. 

If arbitration is going to be useful, it has got to be a real 
thing. You cannot play the game of heads I win and tails you 
lose. We have got to go into a contract and abide the judgment 
that may be a defeat of what we claim, and if we are not willing 
to do that, then we had better not go into arbitration at all, unless 
we are going to treat arbitration as a court, as a court to decide 
something which it has power to decide, and as a court which 
may decide against us and may humiliate us, then my friends, we 
might as well give up the discussion of arbitration. We have 
made great strides in arbitration. The Geneva arbitration initi- 
ated by President Grant, the Fur Seals Arbitration, the Fisheries 
Arbitration, were all steps to show what was possible to ac- 
complish, and it is true that through arbitration we have disposed 
of all questions which have arisen between Great Britain and the 
United States, but we are not making these treaties solely for 
those countries. The danger of war with them is most remote, 
but we are making these treaties as an example to show to the 
world that we are willing to bind ourselves to abide the judgment 
in the future as to something we do not know now the character 
of, and if you strike out the third clause which transfers from 

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the Senate and the Executive the power to decide what is jus- 
ticiable, you. take away the sanction of the treaty that makes it 
really binding and gives it real character, and therefore I urge 
upon you, and I urge upon the Senate, that if we are to make real 
progress in Christian civilization toward the abolition of war, 
let's have the whole treaty and all the treaty as it is without an 
elimination and without cutting down the power of the Senate 
and saying that we cannot take rank in the front of those who 
are struggling to abolish that evil, most evil certainly, war. I 
thank you. 

Monday 

On Monday morning at io:jo an informal meeting was held 
in the college chapel, which proved one of the most interesting 
of all the series. Under the general topic "Inspirational Ad- 
dresses," subject, ''The Christian College and the People," three 
notable messages were delivered. The first was by Rev. J. R. 
McFadden of Chanute, representing the South Kansas Confer- 
ence, who took as his subject the "Pastor and the College," giv- 
ing a practical talk on the large opportunity presenting itself to 
the truly educated pastor to give vision to his young people. 
One of the most vital forms which this work could take was 
in leading them to appreciate the value of a Christian education. 

Following this came a notable address from one of the most 
distinguished representatives of the Baker alumni. It was of a 
character that thrilled the audience because they knew that the 
speaker lived very near the heart of the nation's life. United 
States Senator Joseph L. Bristow took as his subject one part 
of the general theme — "The People." He showed that the su- 
preme power in American life is not law, but public sentiment. 
Instance after instance proved this first point conclusively and 
then the next thought was presented that the welfare of the 
country, the very life of the nation itself, depended upon an in- 
telligent public opinion. In words that thrilled with passion and 
power the senator pictured the grave dangers that confront us 
today as a people, and in a masterly way brought forward his 
final point that the hope of the nation rested in the Christian 
college as the supreme molder of public opinion. 

"The mightiest thing," said he, "that a man can do is to 
plant an institution like this in the heart of a great common- 
wealth." 

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The Rev. F. L. Loveland of Topeka, on behalf of the Kansas 
Conference, extended to Dr. Mason the good will and hearty 
support of the body he represented. As a general theme Dr. 
Loveland spoke for a short time on the chief problem of present 
day life, holding that this is not the development of our great 
industrial or financial resources but the building of great minds. 
In this work the college has the leading place, especially if it 
holds as its chief standard the spirit and ideals of the Christ life. 

At 6:^0 o'clock Monday evening nearly five hundred people 
assembled in Taylor hall, and at 7 o'clock were admitted to the 
university gymnasium, where the grand inaugural banquet was 
held. Representatives of many visiting colleges were present but 
the gathering was a typical Baker one, and enthusiasm ran high. 
After the repast had been disposed of, the chair was taken by 
J. Luther Taylor, '95, who acted as toastmaster and presented 
the speakers of the evening. The first of these was Congress- 
man Philip P. Campbell, Baker, '88. He held the attention of 
the audience as he mingled personal reminiscences of college days 
with a plea for higher ideals in personal and civic life. 

The next speaker was John A. Patten of Chattanooga, Tenn., 
chairman of the Book Committee of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and president of the Layman's Association of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. In a speech filled with the virility and 
magnetism of a man of affairs, Mr. Patten outlined the biggest 
job in all the world. It was that every man and every woman 
make the very most of the field of service God opened before 
them. In closing the speaker brought a personal message. As 
a close personal friend and former parishioner of the new presi- 
dent he brought a message of friendship and good will to the 
Baker people, and spoke in words of glowing eulogy of the great 
accomplishments of Dr. Mason in his former field of labor. Dr. 
John H. Race also added a few words of congratulation on the 
admirable choice Baker had made. 

Tuesday 

Splendid as was the gathering on Sunday afternoon, it was 
a unanimous feeling that the inaugural service held in the gym- 
nasium on Tuesday morning at 10:30 was its equal in character 
and impressiveness. The academic procession, under the direction 
of Dean O. G. Markham, as chief marshall, was led by Judge 

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Nelson E. Case, president of the board of trustees, with Presi- 
dent-elect Mason. Following them the trustees of the university, 
the delegates from other colleges and universities and the faculty 
passed slowly through the campus, making a scene of beauty 
and picturesqueness against the dark green background of tree 
and lawn. The inaugural exercises were held in the college gym- 
nasium. 

The program of this event which is given in detail on the 
following pages makes no mention of a matter of vital interest 
to all friends of Baker University, which was given a place in 
the early part of the morning exercises. Judge Case called to 
the platform J. Luther Taylor, one of the trustees, saying that 
he had an important announcement to make. Mr. Taylor de- 
scribed an athletic contest in which the trustees had been en- 
gaged under the leadership of the new president. The adversary 
was in the form of a debt of about $100,000 resting on the 
university. As he announced the practical v^^iping out of this 
hindrance to the progress of the college as a gift of the trustees 
to the new administration the audience expressed great enthusi- 
asm, men and women sprang to their feet and joined in cheers 
and college yells expressive of their delight in this signal victory, 
and of the noble generosity of the board of trustees. 

Following the morning program, the trustees gave a dinner 
to delegates from colleges and universities and invited guests. 

At the conclusion of the banquet the roll of delegates was 
called and each one introduced. A number of those present were 
also called upon for informal addresses. 

The exercises of the day closed by a reception tendered 
President and Mrs. Mason in the university library. The build- 
ing was thronged with those who came to shower congratulations 
and good wishes upon the new leader of Baker and to wish him 
success and happiness in his work. 



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The Inaugural Program 



TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SIXTH 
TEN-THIRTY IN THE MORNING 



Prelude 



Processional Hymn John B. Dykes 



Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty I 
Early in the morning our song shall 
rise to thee; 

Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty, 
God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity, 

Holy, holy, holy 1 all the saints adore 
thee 
Casting down their golden crowns 
around the glassy sea ; 
Cherubim and seraphim falling down 
befor'e thee. 
Which wert, and art, and evermore 
shalt be. 



Holy, holy, holy I though the darkness 
hide thee, 
Though the eye of sinful man thy 
glory may not see; 
Only thou art holy; there is none be- 
side thee. 
Perfect in power, in love, and purity. 

Holy, holy, holy. Lord God Almighty ! 

All the works shall praise thy name, 
in earth, and sky, and sea; 
Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty, 

God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity ! 



Invocation 

Thr Reverend Francis L. Strickland. Pit. D. 



Anthem, "Great is Jehovah" 

The Choir 



Schubert 



GrcctingfS 

Edward Thomson Fairchild, Ped. D., State Superintendent 
of PubHc Instruction. Representing the Educational In- 
terests of Kansas. 



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The Reverend John H. Race, D. D., President of the Uni- 
versity of Chattanooga, Representing Board of Educa- 
tion of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Charles Graham Dunlap, Litt. D., Representative of Ohio 
Wesleyan University, Representing Delegates from Col- 
leges and Universities. 

Charles Irwin Coldsmith, President of the Senior Class, 
Representing the Students of Baker University. 

OsMON Grant Markham, Litt. D., Dean of the Facutly, 
Representing the Faculty of Baker University. 



The Induction and Presentation of the University Charter and Keys 

The President of the Board of Trustees. 



The Acceptance, The President of the University. 

Baritone Solot "A Song of Thanksgiving" AUitsen 

Prof. David Grosch 

The Inaugfural Address 

The Conferring: of Honorary Dcgfrees 

DoxoIog:y 

The Reverend Willl\m H. Saveet, D.D., Former President 
of the College. 

Benediction 

Postlode 



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Prayer by Doctor Strickland. 

Let us pray; O God, our Heavenly Father, and Father of 
our Lord Jesus Christ, we zvorMp Thee, the giver of all life 
and the source of all light: and we pray that Thou wilt enter 
our hearts with divine peace and blessing at this hour. We 
come to Thee as One whom zve knozv and whom we love. Wc 
are not uncertain of Thy attitude tozvard us. We need not 
study Thy methods to find Thee in some favorable frame of 
mind for Thou are more willing to have us come to Thee than 
zve can be to come. We ask, our Father, that Thou wilt teach 
us Thy thoughts at this time for Thou art the great Teacher and 
in this school that we call life. Thou are giving us our tasks. 
We pray Thee that we may be earnest students in this great 
school and that as the disciplines of life bring to us our lessons 
we may seek to learn them well, flear us, gracious Father, as 
we ask Thy blessing upon the exercises of this hour. Wilt thou 
deepen our consciousness of what it means to work for Thee and 
labor for those great purposes and aims for which Thou didst 
found Thy kingdom: and grant that we may see more clearly than 
ever that this zvork of education is Thy work; that zve need not 
divide our work into two halves, and call one-half secular and the 
other half sacred. We remember that all things are Thine, and 
every zvork is a divine work and every calling a sacred calling 
and so wilt Thou deepen our sense of our divine mission in life 
and if it be that zve work in one field or another help us to believe 
that zve are called of God for the work that our hands find to do. 

We ask Thy blessing especially upon him about z<jhom our 
thoughts gather at this hour. We pray that Thou zvill imbue 
him for this. Thy work. We pray that Thou zvill grant to him 
Thy wisdom for this task and as the possibilities of the greatness 
of this service shall dawn upon him, give to him also the thought- 
fid heart that he may serve Thee, with these zvho serve in this 
place. 

And grant upon the faculty of this university Thy continued 
blessing and grant, zve pray Thee, that these men and women 
may realise that it is Thy zvork and that they are called to higher 
and holier things. We pray that upon the Board of Trustees 
there may descend Thy benediction — these men of God zvho 
guide the affairs and zvho bear the burdens of this, Thy zvork. 
Grant that their hearts may be illumined and that they may see 

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what it is to be workers with God for the conservation of Chris- 
tian character and the great business of transmitting their earthly 
substance into that wealth that shall never pass away. And upon 
the student body, God, wilt Thou continue Thy favor. We 
thank Thee for this glorious company of young men and women. 
We thank Thee that they come here with earnest purpose. We 
thank Thee for those who have gone out from their number into 
efficient and higher service of Christ's kingdom and in Christ's 
church; and we pray that from this time there may be more who 
shall consecrate themselves to Thee to do Thy will and to serve 
their fellow men. And now, O Father, grant that our thoughts 
may be Thy thoughts. Grant that we may see clearly with Thy 
divine fulness of vision. Help us to look to Thee for Thy guid- 
ance, realizing constantly that fellowship with Thy Son ennobles 
all life and may our purposes and our aims be consecrated by 
Him' until that day when we shall be forever with the Lord. In 
the name of Christ, the Beloved, 

Amen. 

Judge Case: 

My friends, we have a number of greetings from those who 
have come to be with us on this occasion. You have the paper be- 
fore you showing who they are and where they come from. I am 
very glad, indeed, to have the honor of presenting them to you 
this morning. The first one is a friend of Baker, a friend of 
young people, a leader in general education in Kansas. 

Superintendent Fairchild : Representing the educational 
interests of Kansas. 
Mr. Chairman, Friends of Baker University : 

I regard it as a distinct honor and a great pleasure to be pres- 
ent on this occasion — ^to be permitted to take some small part in 
the ceremonies of the day. Not alone because we are to bring greet- 
ings to a new president, but because of the great University known 
as Baker, which has rendered such invaluable service in the up- 
building of a great state. Just the other day and we celebrated 
the Fiftieth Anniversaiy of the admission of Kansas into the 
sisterhood of states, but for fully three years preceding that date 
Baker had been planned and was beginning the service that was 
to be of such great importance in the years to come. 

As I sat here this morning, and listened and was inspired, 
as were we all, by the account of the work of these trustees, I 

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said to myself, it is no wonder that this university is doing the 
great good that it is and that it has accompHshed the great things 
of the past. Methodism and pioneerism are synonymous terms, 
and, here in Kansas, in our most prideful moments, will never 
forget the splendid things and noble ideals of self sacrifice that 
has been exhibited and has ever characterized Methodism in 
Kansas as well as in the nation. 

It is not my purpose, this morning, to enter into an account 
of the history of this institution, but I am glad to present to you, 
friends, this morning, the fact that there never was a moment 
in all the history of this state when the educational interests were 
so closely united, were working together so harmoniously, as at 
this moment. Perhaps we do not often realize the tremendous 
aggregate influence of the colleges of this state. Our attention 
is frequently challenged and we are given frequent notice of the 
splendid work accomplished by our great state institutions, mag- 
nificent in the work they are doing and in the college enrollment. 
In the colleges of the state, last year, there were one 
thousand more students than in our state institutions. 
The total expenditures in these schools were in excess of 
the three state institutions. I might go on and give further 
comparisons, but I simply speak of this to show, my friends, 
that the colleges of Kansas are performing, today, as in 
the past a great and a signal service. We are proud of the work 
that is being accomplished in these institutions. We are proud 
of the spirit of the students and we are proud and delighted with 
the fact that in every one of these institutions, as indeed, in every 
educational institution of this state, we are coming more and 
more to realize that the greatest stress is to be laid, not upon 
mere scholarship alone, but upon the full development of the 
ethical and moral; and it is this that is receiving greater atten- 
tion today, than ever before. Baker is an institution rich in 
the memory of the work that has been done, rich in the results 
and the splendid influence that has ever guided and directed those 
who have been in attendance and it is to this institution, sir, that 
the trustees in their wisdom, have called you — ^an institution, 
representing, as it does, a long line of illustrious predecessors, 
men who have labored for the upbuilding of this institution and 
for the larger good of the state — it is to this responsible position 
you have been invited and the friends of Baker and the friends 
of education everywhere are joining with these trustees in the 

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hope that you shall realize every ambition of theirs and that it 
shall be your great privilege to make of Baker University a still 
bigger university, one whose influence shall permeate every 
corner of the land and whose helpfulness shall be more and more 
recognized as the years go by. 

We welcome you, Dr. Mason, to the educational field in this 
state. The thirteen thousand teachers in this state are each and 
every one your friend. They will prove to be responsive to every 
effort of yours and wish you, as I do, God's speed in the respon- 
sible work that is about to fall upon your shoulders. 

Dr. Race: 
Representing the Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal 

Church. 
Ladies and Gentlemen: 

A three-fold privilege is mine this morning, as I stand on 
this auspicious occasion. First, to present greetings, for I am 
from the church that our dear friend served so acceptably as 
pastor. Permit me to read : 

At a congregational meeting of the membership of the 
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Chattanooga, held Sep- 
tember 20th, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: 

Whereas, The Rev. Wilbur N. Mason, D. D., served our 
church with the greatest acceptability for three years, and 

Whereas, Dr. Mason is, on September 26th, to be officially 
inaugurated as president of Baker University, one of the oldest 
and most useful institutions of learning conducted under the 
auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; be it 

Resolved, That we, as a congregation, request President 
John H. Race to convey to Dr. Mason the affectionate greetings 
of the people of his former parish with congratulations upon 
the fine opportunity for service before him, which he is so well 
qualified to meet ; 

Resolved Further, That we congratulate Ba^er University 
upon the acquisition of such a capable executive and tender our 
best wishes for the success of this institution. 

In the second place permit me to present this minute from 
the faculty of the University of Chattanooga, an institution with 
which President-elect Mason has been, for three years, most in- 
timately associated and to which institution he has rendered 
such valuable service. 

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The University of Chattanooga sends greetings to Baker 
University on the occasion of the inauguration of Wilbur Nesbitt 
Mason as President. It is the hope of the president and faculty 
that the cordial relations existing between the two universities 
may be perpetuated for the advancement of the cause of educa- 
tion in our beloved church and country. 

Chattanooga, Tennessee. 

Sept. XVI, Anno Domini, MCMXI. 

And now let me speak as the representative of the Educa- 
tional interests of our church. 

The Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
seeks to apply to the educational activities of the denomination 
those principles of organization that have produced such marked 
results in the counting rooms and the factories of this present 
day. An educational new day dawned for the denomination 
when the General Conference in session at Baltimore in May, 
1908, enlarged the function of this important organization of 
the denomination. The task committed to this board is a four- 
fold one, and in respect to them, in presenting the greetings of 
the board, I am permitted to speak for just a moment. 

The first problem confronting the Board of Education was 
to standardize our Methodist institutions of learning, the idea 
being, not to have more colleges but to have better colleges, and 
to see that the education of the Methodist college should be equal 
to the best of any throughout our vast country and that this stan- 
dard of education be rigidly adhered to by the officers in control 
of the different colleges under the auspices of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 

The second problem confronting the Board of Education 
was to connectionalize our different educational institutions. 
Prior to 1908 our Board of Education consisted of twelve mem- 
bers. It had been committed to the task of disbursing a loan 
fund. It was helpful in this agency to the youth of our educa- 
tional institutions, but there came a vision to the denomination 
that something larger was to be expected of such a board and 
now representatives are gathered together from the fifteen Gen- 
eral Conference Districts of Methodism and they sit in council 
planning, not alone for the loan fund, but for other phases of 
educational activity. Thus another function is fast being devel- 
oped imder the agency and through the auspices of this board. 

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We are learning more and more that our educational interests 
are one and this board is coming to have a direct, if advisory, 
interest in each school so that our denominational institutions 
shall feel that we are connectionalized, and all part of one great 
and glorious church. 

The third great problem that our Board of Education hopes 
to do is to capitalize our denominational institutions. We are 
not to bring our youth to Methodist institutions just because they 
are Methodist institutions, but we do seek to present such cultural 
opportunity in our colleges of arts and science that when we step 
out and give any young man or young woman an invitation to 
attend any one of our institutions, we want him to imderstand that 
we are going to provide the very choicest in the way of teachers 
and introduce him to an equipment that is equal to the best 
that can be provided. It may have been true what was once 
said and when it was said, that "Mark Hopkins on one end of a 
log and a student on the other constituted a college." That would 
not be true today. We might, however, term that a seat of 
learning but we would not think of calling it a college. Today 
the laboratory equipment and the material demands for every 
department are such that we must have endowments and the 
Board of Education has been seeking to get into such intimate 
relationship with the great founders in the east that our de- 
nominational institutions shall feel the power of their aggrand- 
ized capital and right now under the agency of this board there 
are endowment campaigns in operation due to the generosity of 
the Rockefeller foundation that will add, when these campaigns 
shall have been finished, four and a half million dollars to the 
endowment and miscellaneous equipment of Methodist Episcopal 
institutions of learning and the work your trustees have done 
here in playing the game that you have been playing during these 
recent years is in perfect harmony with the ideals of the Board 
of Education that I have the honor to represent here this day. 
And I was thinking, as I heard the fine leader of men who knows 
how to play the game and understands the phraseology of our 
great college sport, I was thinking if every friend of Baker 
could be enthused with the never dying spirit that has been 
inaugurated here this day, that this old institution will go for- 
ward with such new zest that the touch-down shall be reached 
ere the game period shall be closed. I have been inspired as I 

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have thought of a little poem of Edmund Vance Cooke. I want 
to bring it to you as you hold the goal line and I want to apply 
it to you as you go into the game. 

Did you tackle that trouble that came your way 

With a resolute heart and cheerful ; 

Or hide your face from the light of day 

With a craven soul and fearful? 

Oh, a trouble is a ton, or a trouble is an ounce, 

Or a trouble is what you make it 

And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, 

But only— how did you take it? 

You are beaten to earth ? Well, well, what's that ? 

Come up with a smiling face. 

It's nothing against you to fall down flat. 

But to lie there — that's disgrace. 

The harder you're thrown, why, the higher you bounce ; 

Be proud of your blackened eye! 

It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts ; 

It's how did you fight — and why? 

And though you be done to the death, what then? 

If you battled the best you could. 

If you played your part in the world of men, 

Why the Critic will call it good. 

Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce, 

And whether he's slow, or spry, 

It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts, 

But only — how did you die? 

and with that spirit, going into this campaign for endowment for 
our denominational institutions we shall be able to capitalize 
them that they may reach the highest state of efficiency. 

The great problem that confronts the Board of Education 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church is to Christianize our de- 
nominational institutions, standardize, connectionalize them, cap- 
italize them, but pre-eminently Christianize them. 

Representing the accomplished Secretary of the Board of 
Education and speaking this brief moment for the Educational 
Board I bring to you. President Case, and President-elect Mason 
the greetings, true and sincere from this board and we would 

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have you believe, as we doubt not you do believe, that Baker and 
all our other institutions shall recognize that Jesus Christ is 
here and the affairs of all our colleges are under the leadership 
of the Captain of our lives. All hail to Baker ! All hail to you, 
sir, beautiful friend of the years, and may the God of all of us 
shower upon you His benediction as you go into the leadership 
of this fine opportunity ! 

Professor Dunlap: 
Representing Delegates from Colleges and Universities. 
Friends of Baker University: 

It affords me very great pleasure to extend to Dr. Mason, 
greetings and congratulations on behalf of the delegates of 
the various colleges as well as to felicitate Baker University 
upon securing so able an administrator for the duties that 
are so soon to be his. Baker University is not a theory — • 
Baker University is a fact. It has a group of splendid build- 
ings, it has finely equipped laboratories, it has an able faculty; 
it has a great body of loyal alumni, many of whom have 
acquired a large amount of possessions in this world. And this, 
sir, is the institution whose chief place you are to occupy. We 
congratulate you upon the opportunity that is here presented to 
you. We believe in Dr. Mason, we believe he is a man of high- 
est culture, we believe he has ideals, he is young, he is energetic, 
he has enthusiasm and we welcome him to our western country 
because here we need education, and enthusiasm in matters of 
education. In the midst of the acclaim and cheers which are 
greeting you. Dr. Mason, let me call your attention to one fact, 
that at this moment Ohio Wesleyan is thinking of you. The 
faculty and alumni of your Alma Mater, of Ohio Wesleyan, are 
turning their minds toward Baldwin today. They are wonder- 
ing what you will say in your inaugural; they are wondering 
what kind of ideals you will have; they are wondering if you 
have strength of force to carry on this great work that has 
come to you and at this moment some of your old college pro- 
fessors, who taught you years ago, are tarrying in their work 
and their minds are upon Baker University and they are hoping, 
and trusting, and praying that you may be given strength to hold 
aloft the highest standards of learning and that you may hold 
on to those ideals of Christian learning and Christian education 

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which you understand so well. I bring you congratulations from 
the colleges and from the Ohio Wesleyan I bring you a God's 
speed and a benediction. 

Mr. Goldsmith: 
Representing the Students of Baker University. 

A great place is always awaiting the great man. By a great 
man I mean the man who serves. By a great place I mean the 
place where man can serve. For this, indeed, is an age of service. 
Never before have men g^ven themselves so completely to the 
service of their fellow men as now. The measure of success is 
not fame nor position, but is the measure of service. 

The life of the average college student is not settled and 
fixed in definite, hard lines. His character is opened to the in- 
fluence of both good and evil. He is as clay in the hands of 
the potter. And thrice blessed is the man that can influence and 
fashion the life of a fellow man. And of all great service this is 
the greatest. To Dr. Mason this great responsibility and oppor- 
tunity has fallen. And in him we are confident that our lives 
shall be touched for better things. 

At the resignation of Dr. Murlin as president of Baker 
University the same guiding hand of God that has always been 
in the life of Baker, pointed to Dr. Mason. We were anxious 
to hear the name. When the name that had been selected from 
many, was presented to us, as only college students can, we 
cheered and demanded to know "What's the matter with Dr. 
Mason?" And some way we all answered: "He's all right." 
And from that moment he was ours and we were his. 

We wanted to see him. And as we saw him for the first 
time we were more sure than ever that we were not mistaken. 
But now we know him; and in his wisdom his untiring energy 
and above all, his genial good nature, we have found our friend. 
Already we have come to love him, and now he is one of the 
great Baker family. And in this attitude more than in words, 
we extend our most hearty welcome. 

Such relations only increase the opportunities for service. 
These grand opportunities are only exceeded by the possibilities 
of accomplishment. Baker has ever stood for high ideals. Her 
history has indeed been one of accomplishment, yet greater things 
are possible for us. I am enough of a Kansan to appreciate the 
majesty of the hills and vales and the glories of the Kansas sun- 

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rise and many hues of the departing day, but more than this I 
appreciate her great men who are doing the world's work. And 
also I dream of times when to a greater degree, there and there 
and there the world shall see the sons and daughters of Kansas 
and especially of Baker, as they give forth the many hues of a 
glorious life given to the service of humanity and God. 

Dr. Mason, there they are before you waiting for the touch 
of the master workman so that they may go forth to valiant 
labor. This is your task. I congratulate you that you have been 
chosen president of Baker University. I congratulate you that 
the opportunities and responsibilities are large. I congratulate 
you that the conditions for the bringing about of the realization of 
these possibilities are so promising. And so, working hand to 
hand, heart to heart we shall work out the tasks that are before 
us. And, representing the student body, I- bid you God speed in 
your glorious work. 

Dr. Markham : Representing the faculty of Baker Uni- 
versity. 

Mr. President, Distinguished Guests, Friends of Baker Univer- 
sity: 

My place to speak is one under a high commission. It 
would not be comely to suggest the possibility that the con- 
gratulations of the faculty on this occasion are more hearty or 
more enthusiastic than those of other friends of the university. 
I would rather say that the felicitations from all quarters 
are thoroughly genuine and are unmixed, and to these 
the persons for whom I have the privilege to speak add their 
part as if to make full, even to overflowing, the measure of high 
honor and undiminished good-cheer. 

The faculty of a college like Baker may be thought of as 
an inner-circle in the whole complex life of the institution, and 
as having a closer bond in personal relations than mere official 
rank or position, in some professional w^ay. To this circle we 
give hearty greeting to the new president, and to Mrs. Mason, and 
to their interesting quartette of little girls. We invite them to 
draw up close to the genial fire-sides of our heart life, or to look 
out through the fair windows of friendship upon the prospect 
spread out in the whole round of activity in our town-life and 
church-life, as well as in our many-sided college activities. 

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A college is not only a retreat for study, but is also an arena 
for action, no less exacting or having no less significant an ap- 
peal than other places where a larger publicity is possible. The 
spirit of the age has linked contemplative thought with responsive 
and related action, and the college is the opportunity to see these 
phases of life as they may be molded in simpler outline. The 
one who is called to be the leader under such an opportunity, as 
the chief administrator of a college faculty, meets a demand 
high-minded, disinterested, provocative of serious purpose, and 
expecting competency and efficiency. All this we recognize in 
our new leadership. We look toward a high ideal of scholarship, 
which would buy the truth and sell it not, fearless in courage, 
sensitive to right. 

The message I bear in high commission, President-elect 
Mason, is one not alone of genial felicitation. This hour is also 
a promise and a pledge. If we as a faculty have been true and 
faithful, devoted and efficient, zealous and alert, in days before 
this, and under other leaders, all this is pledged in sincerity and 
clear conviction to you and to the college we all delight to honor. 

Charge to the President-Elect, Dr. Wilbur N. Mason, by Judge 

Nelson Case, President of the Board of Trustees. 
Dr. Mason: 

Some weeks ago we first met, each looking for the other, 
by appointment. I had been commanded, by our board, to pay 
a visit to the southland and there, under the broad southern 
sky of Tennessee, to meet, face to face, the man whom we had 
hoped would be our leader, our president. I wanted to see 
whether or not you would come to accept this delightful position, 
this high office. I remember we talked over the things that are 
before us, the things we would have to meet. I remember you 
asked what we had out here to offer. And I replied something 
like that — that we had the hardest job you ever imdertook. 
And you said, that's just what I want. Now you have accepted 
the offer; and the experience you have had here in these few 
weeks, and observation that you have already made, I think 
convinces you that I did not mis-state the fact. You have, with 
a realization of the difficulties confronting you, come to accept 
this position of hard work and great possibilities, and we wel- 
come you to the one and expect you to accomplish the other. 

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I come today, by authority of the Board of Trustees, who 
have unanimously elected you, not from one or two but out of a 
great niunber of worthy leaders whom we had tmder considera- 
tion, to publicly declare our act and to formally induct you into 
office, and to place the management of the college affairs 
officially in your charge. 

I want to call your attention to one or two things of the 
past. I hold in my hand the charter of this university, given 
by the legislature of the territory of Kansas in 1858. Civil war, 
in our own midst, had been going on for several years. Civil 
war in the nation could almost be discerned by the seer; and 
yet amid the trials of all those political and war-like scenes, the 
people of Kansas, represented by their representatives in the 
legislature, stopped a moment to make known their belief that in 
this great territory which would become a great state, we had a 
body of men ready to found an institution of learning which 
was designed to live and be as permanent as the state. 

L. B. Dennis, Ira Blackford, Charles H. Love joy, Walter 
Oakley, N. Taylor, Homer H. Moore, James Shaw, Curtis 
Graham and William Butt — ^these men with others associated 
with them, had met in the previous year a short distance from 
here in a log cabin and had formed the Kansas Educational 
Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and they came 
to the legislature asking it to give them authority to place here 
a Methodist college, based on Christian principles and experience, 
to endure so long as men are dominated by high ideals and 
inspired by noble courage. I need not go through the details 
of this great event, nor more particularly inquire into those 
times of trial and privation which were before the men who 
had the courage to assume the duties imposed upon them by this 
charge and of their worthy successors. Time would fail me to 
speak of Davis, Paddock, Hartman, Locke, Horner, Rice, Simp- 
son, McNutt, Harford, Weatherby, Denison, Sweet, Gobin, 
Quayle, Murlin, who through faith subdued kingdoms of evil, 
wrought righteousness, obtained promises, overcame the forces 
of nature, escaped the edge of the sword, waxed mighty in war, 
turned to flight armies of aliens. The sacrifices they made, 
the burdens they bore, the afflictions they endured, and the 
achievements they won, would form too large a catalogue to 
rehearse today. Surely, of these the world was not worthy. 
And these all having witness borne to them through their faith, 

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received not the promise in such fullness as they hoped. God 
having provided some better things concerning us, that apart 
from us they should not be made perfect. Into the fellowship 
of, and as successor to, this noble company of Christian leaders 
you are now to be admitted. Conditions have changed since 
these men made history; but if the problems confronting you 
are different, they are no less exacting than those which your 
predecessors had to solve, and we hope from you even more 
glorious results. 

Into your care I commit this charter which was granted by 
the territorial legislature, and I ask you not only to preserve it, 
but to make it possible to have it transmitted to your successor 
with added honor and prestige. 

The faculty of which you are the head, the body of young 
people who will look to you for guidance, have claims upon 
Methodists of Eastern Kansas which call for large financial in- 
vestments, and you are now commissioned to cut the purse 
strings. But this can only be done and should only be done, 
on the theory that the Bible is the supreme text book and that the 
spirit of the Nazarene is to be the dominating force in the teach- 
ing here given, for this is the one supreme test by which Baker's 
right to exist as a part of the educational system of Kansas 
is to be determined. As authorized and directed by the Board 
of Trustees, I also deliver in your hands these keys which will 
unlock the various buildings which are now placed under your 
especial charge. They are the fruitage and growth of a half 
century's struggles and achievements, and have been placed on 
these grounds at great sacrifice. I will not stop to go into these 
details. Some of them you know, and these keys will unlock 
the doors of these buildings committed to your care. 

The most precious treasure which we possess, and which I 
now commit to your directing hand — ^that for which charter, 
and campus, and buildings and faculty have been secured — is 
this fine body of students now here, and those who shall come 
after them from the great constituency of Baker University. 

I was impressed with the fact at our first meeting, and the 
conviction has deepened during the weeks I have had the oppor- 
tunity to witness something of your movements and to hear your 
words, that the key which is to unlock the hearts of these 
students and of Baker's great constituency from which they 
come, is not to come to you from the Board of Trustees through 

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me, but that it has already been delivered to you by a Power 
higher than man's creation. And this prerogative we believe you 
will use wisely. 

In behalf of these high interests, in view of the sacred 
heritage of privation and of service which comes to you from 
the past, with a vision of the grand possibilities opening before 
us as we enter the second decade of the twentieth century, I 
appeal to you as the leader of this department of the King's 
educational host, to set the standard high, to press forward with 
all the energy you command for a conquest which comes only 
through the most strenuous exertion, and to listen intently for the 
voice and to watch with a sleepless eye for the guiding hand 
of the Supreme Commander. 

Dr. Mason, by authority of the Board of Trustees, I now 
declare you president of Baker University, and possessed of all 
the rights, and subject to all the duties and obligations belonging 
to that post; and I now welcome you to that position. 

Response of Doctor Mason : 
Mr. President: 

With a deep sense of the responsibility of the great task 
that I now assume, I humbly, but with high courage and con- 
fident faith in Gk)d, take up the duty you place upon me. 

Inaugural Address : 
Mr. President, Members of the Board of Trustees, Delegates, 
Alumni, Faculty, Students and Friends: 

I am deeply grateful for the honor shown me today by your 
gracious words and even more gracious acts. Your generous 
courtesy is evidence of the high place Baker University holds 
in your affection. The distinguished recognition I am receiving 
at your hands comes to me not as an individual, but as the chosen 
leader of an institution whose long service and large achievements 
have rightly given this college an enviable place in the educa- 
tional life of this commonwealth and of the nation; for Baker's 
"line has gone out through all the earth," and her influence "unto 
the ends of it." On behalf of Baker University and on my own 
account, I heartily thank you. 

I stand at the threshold of a new and untried task. Not 
as one having long years of experience in solving the perennial 
problems of education, or in doing the perplexing work of educa- 

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tional administration, am I in this presence to assume the respon- 
sibilities now formally put upon me. I am here rather as one 
who has been an earnest student in the schools and a careful 
observer of those tendencies in education that especially interest 
a teacher that has the pulpit as his desk, the Christian church 
as his lecture hall and laboratory. 

To outline a policy, or to discuss any of the mooted ques- 
tions concerning the college and the university is not my purpose. 
A policy is good only as it brings to pass definite and substantial 
results. The test of any policy is its product. To outline my 
policy as president of Baker University would not be valuable 
to you, and it might later seriously embarrass me, as the chasm 
between promise and fulfillment yawned wide in the pathway 
of coming years. Questions as to the organization and conduct of 
a college; the discussion of educational ideals and standards, 
and proposals as to the best methods for realizing those ideals 
or bringing the college up to the accepted standards of efficiency — 
these and kindred topics are more fitly considered in the edu- 
cational conference. They do not find place in what today I 
wish to consider. I am concerned with what is at once the 
outgrowth of college conditions and at the same time the force 
that determines the conditions that exist in college life. My 
interest today centers in that elusive but substantial thing called 
"college spirit," or more exactly, "The Spirit of the College." 

In dealing with this theme I am touching upon one of the 
most potent forces in the realm of higher education. The spirit of 
an institution is its most precious possession. More valuable 
than all endowments and educational foundations; more sub- 
stantial than college buildings and the campus on which they 
stand; more permanent than faculty and student body; the 
spirit of the college is the realest reality about an institution. It 
vitalizes endowments and educational foundations, making sordid 
gold to glow with a radiance possible only when it is minted 
into glorious life. The spirit of the college enters into and 
tenants heaps of brick and stone until they are crowded with a 
living presence that voices its message from the speaking walls, 
echoes through corridors and presides over classes as they as- 
semble in lecture hall and laboratory. The spirit of the college 
amalgamates a faculty gathered from far scattered schools and 
makes a heterogeneous group of independent thinkers and 
teachers to become a unit in their expression of the ideals and 

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purposes of the college. That same spirit enters into the crowd 
of youth constituting the student body. It transforms that 
diverse and sometimes motley company into an articulated organ- 
ism vigorous and effective in action under the quickening impulse 
of the spirit of the college. It becomes the guiding hand to 
lead young men and women along new and undiscovered paths. 
It stirs aspirations, arouses enthusiasms, and gives a dynamic 
that sends out sons and daughters of the institution with a 
faculty for achievement — the best service any college can render 
to its students. This significant element in college life is the 
fullest expression of all that the college stands for and, at the 
same time it marks out the lines of the college's development. 
What individuality is to a man, that the college spirit is to the 
college. It gives character to the institution; it differentiates a 
school from its sister schools; it separates the college from all 
others of its kind and makes it worthy to be counted an educa- 
tional center. Without this distinctiveness and individuality, a 
college is no more worthy its name than a furnished house bereft 
of the living presence of mother and children is worthy to be 
called a home. When the living, vitalizing and creative presence 
of the family is withdrawn, a house, however splendidly ap- 
pointed for the comfort of its tenants ceases to be a home. 
It may be worth thousands of dollars as real estate but a home 
it is not and cannot be, until the humanizing presence of the 
family peoples the spacious parlors, library, and chambers with 
that spirit which is the essential element of a home. So endow- 
ments and buildings, museums and laboratories cannot make a 
college. These means to a great end are efficient only as the 
creative and directive spirit enters into them and turns them 
to their appointed uses. 

Here is revealed one of the glorious opportunities afforded 
by educational work. No higher task can engage the energy of 
men. To take the raw, crude stuff provided through gifts for 
endowment and for physical equipment, shape it into a closely 
organized structure and breathe into it the breath of life so that 
it becomes a living spirit blessing multitudes of men and making 
of them living souls — this is a divine task. Men thus engaged 
are verily standing side by side with the Almighty, sharing with 
Him in the holy business of breathing into dust of the ground a 
breath that makes that dust a living soul. 

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When we seek a nearer view into this deeply mysterious 
thing, we are baffled. It eludes analysis and shuns the searching 
gaze. We have called it a living reality, and so it is. For this 
reason, it may not be analyzed into its constituent parts. Life 
in the process of analysis ceases to be life. We can only point 
out some of its manifestations and so reveal certain of its dis- 
tinctive characteristics. 

A college having the sort of spirit we are exalting must be 
pre-eminently loyal to the truth. Its controlling passion is the 
passion for reality. The right kind of college spirit cannot exist 
in an atmosphere of artificiality and sham. Whatever else it 
seeks, it is supremely concerned about the plain and unreserved 
truth. It is filled with a soul-stirring disgust when something 
untrue claims allegiance. It can ally itself with nothing except 
what bears the stamp of truth. It goes beneath appearance and 
looks into the inner facts; it pushes aside or scorns with a 
splendid distain everything that cannot approve itself true. 
With a heroism and abandon magnificent, the college spirit cries 
"Give me truth or I die!" An individual or an institution 
imbued with such spirit will go upon any King Arthur's quest 
with a courage and serene confidence truly glorious. It does 
not fear the new; nor does it despise the old; for both are 
equally permanent in so far as they are true. Theories, vagaries, 
and dreams are futile. The truth alone endures. 

Where this spirit prevails, there is a poise and composure 
that cannot be startled into sudden dismay by some new in- 
terpretation or some new discovery that does not fully square 
with previously accepted notions. Love for the truth emancipates 
from all such fear. Why be fearful since no reason for dread 
exists? The truth is what we seek and if we have it not today 
but find it tomorrow, we shall abandon the false and gladly 
seize the true. Any attitude other than this destroys that in- 
valuable element of strength — the consciousness of absolute 
security bom of an unswerving purpose to pursue only the truth. 
A danger lies at this point in the path of the denominational 
college. So serious is it that it may destroy the finest elements in 
the spirit of the college. With the desire or the necessity of 
conforming to certain creedal standards while at the same time the 
college seeks to be loyal to the truth, an anomalous situation 
sometimes arises. If the standards do not harmonize with what 
is found to be true, a clash of authority occurs. In the effort 

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to reconcile the irreconcilable, the sense of security awakened 
by allegiance to the truth is destroyed, and there develops a feeling 
that something must be hidden because it cannot bear the light of 
day. A situation like this is deadly in its hostility to the spirit 
of the college. That almost joyous spontaneity that is one of its 
essentials is lost, and a haunting fear takes its place. The college 
loses confidence in itself — the first step toward losing the con- 
fidence of the college community and of the community at large. 
When this calamity comes, the real usefulness of the college as 
a teacher and leader of the people is destroyed. 

Some may be disturbed at the possible implications of this 
position. Must standards be revised with the publication of 
every new discovery announced from the workshop of the scien- 
tific investigator or from the study of the man of scholarly re- 
search ? That would imply that the college must read the morning 
paper before deciding its attitude for the day. This would make 
the college the creature of every passing whim and fancy of the 
so-called leaders of thought. Quite the contrary. The true 
college is a conserving and steadying force. Its business is to 
keep men from hasty and ill-advised conclusions. With patient 
but eager investigation, it examines and weighs; it tests and 
tries whatever claim the assent of educated men, and their de- 
cision becomes the rule of faith and practice, until fuller light 
or larger knowledge leads to a revision of opinion. This is an 
attitude rather than a confirmed and established position tena- 
ciously held against even fuller knowledge. A willingness to 
give due consideration to all available facts is the true spirit of 
the college. If knowledge is power it is so only when it is real 
knowledge and not the whimsical conclusion of the study. The 
college must try the spirits whether they speak of themselves or 
whether they witness for the God of truth. When the college so 
conducts itself, the spirit prevailing in it will be wholesomely 
progressive and sanely conservative of all that is true. If this 
view is correct, the valiant champion of some particular doctrine 
need not fear lest he abandon the solid rock of positive con- 
viction for the shifting sand of variable opinion. Conviction, 
however firmly held, is mere prejudice and caprice if it is not 
grounded on the enduring foundation of eternal truth. The 
spirit of the college makes its path across the trackless sands of 
outgrown and discarded opinions and comes to rest upon the firm 
and fertile ground of proved conclusions. This marks the path 

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of advance in that upward way toward the goal of perfect truth. 
The present becomes the dawn of a better, brighter day. 
"Each age must worship its own thought of God, 
More or less earthy, clarifying still 
With subsidence continuous of the dregs; 
Nor saint, nor sage could fix immutably 
The fluent image of the unstable Best, 
Still changing in their very hands that wrought; 
Today's eternal Truth tomorrow proved 
Frail as frost-landscapes on a window-pane." 
This is the attitude of the open mind. It has clear and 
definite conviction, but it has none of the stubborn tenacity of 
opinion that maintains its stand against every champion of the 
new or of the old in a new garb. The spirit of the college de- 
velops a fine intellectual hospitality that welcomes light from 
every source. To do otherwise would be disloyalty to all for 
which the college stands. 

"Nor know I w^hich to hold worst enemy. 
Him who on speculation's windy waste 
Would turn me loose, stript of the raiment warm 
By Faith contrived against our nakedness, 
Or him who, cruel-kind, would fain obscure 
With painted saints and paraphrase of God, 
The soul's east-window of divine surprise." 
This joyous experience of surprise comes only to him who 
is ready to welcome the sunburst with wide flung window and 
a glad eagerness to catch the first light of the new day. A college 
faculty inspired with such a spirit is an exhaustless spring of 
inspiration to the student body. Their scholarly attainments and 
intellectual achievements may not be as great as many others may 
enjoy; but for the real business of the college, a corps of in- 
struction so equipped in unmeasurable in its power. Through 
their eyes, young people of narrow horizon see visions of the 
limitless fields of the divine purpose to be wrought out in human 
lives. The quickening touch of high ideals stirs ambitious youth 
to dream dreams that are actualized in their awakened souls. 
For teaching is not mere instruction. It is inspiration. Educa- 
tion is an enthusiasm; a contagion of character spread through 
contact of soul with soul. Men are not made; they are be- 
gotten, created by the sovereign power of a spirit filled with a 
divine might energizing the untrained will, disciplining the mind, 
kindling the affections and giving them a field for exercise. 

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The material equipment of the college may be limited. 
The resources at its command may be meagre; but a body of 
heroic and self-denying teachers consecrated to the highest in 
education will enable the college to do for its students, what the 
best facilities cannot do without this spirit operating in the 
teaching corps. This spirit of the college becomes a brooding 
presence that warms into vigorous and glorious life that strange, 
distinctive something that is the possession of the awakened 
soul. An energy is implanted, a life is begotten that makes a 
man forever after a new creation. A fire is kindled in his blood 
that burns with consuming desire to achieve great things in life. 
For a man thus born anew no task is too great. Difficulties 
cannot rise so high as to strike with dismay his courageous 
heart. Defeat cannot be so complete as to make him acknowl- 
edge failure. The spirit of the college at this point becomes 
synomymous with service and sacrifice. To acquire learning may 
be the quintessence of selfishness; but the college must do more 
than store the mind of its graduates with the lore of the ages. 
To go deep in the realm of scientific research may be the gratifi- 
cation of a mere passion to know for the sake of knowing, but 
this is not education. The learned man is great only as his 
learning is made to serve the higher good of men. The expert 
in scientific investigation must bring his acquirements and con- 
secrate them to the service of humanity. 

The college spirit thus expressing itself leads its possessor 
up into the high realm where dwelt the Supreme Teacher of 
men. "For their sakes I sanctify myself," is the crowning glory 
of the Christ. It is the radiant ideal of every graduate that 
has come into the profoundest secrets that the college can reveal. 
The tragedy of too much that is called education is the futility 
and uselessness of the educated man. His superior advantages 
separate him from his fellows and he becomes censorious and 
disappointed. He has not given the college spirit right of 
way in shaping his character. His opened eyes behold the ap- 
palling defects in the life of the world, but his heart has not 
learned that the redemption of the world is the mission of the 
strong. To bear the infirmities of the weak is the high calling 
of the educated man. The college that can realize this ideal in 
its spirit and bring its sons and daughters to consecrate them- 
selves to this task will be forever a blessing to the race. 

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Degrees Conferred 

At the close of the Inaugural address, the president of the 
university by the recommendation of the faculty and by the 
authority of the Board of Trustees, conferred the following 
honorary degrees: 

MASTER OF ARTS. 

Emma Amelia Robinson : A friend of youth ; vitally sym- 
pathetic with educational progress ; teacher of childhood in many 
lands; pioneer in training of the young for intelligent and loyal 
membership in the Christian church. 



DOCTOR OF DIVINITY. 

Francis Lorette Strickland : Careful student of the works 
and word of God; efficient interpreter of the gospel of the 
Father's love to the sons of men; successful pastor; wise leader 
of a progressive college in the Middle West. 

DOCTOR OF LAWS. 

John Alanson Patten : Man of affairs ; f ar-visioned leader 
in the New South; master of the arts of friendship; generous 
benefactor of education and all good causes ; great-souled layman 
in the church of God. 



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LIST OF DELEGATES. 



HAMILTON COLLEGE 

John E. Frost, A. M. 

ILLINOIS COLLEGE 

WiLLARD Hayes Garrett, B. S. 

trinity college 
Albert Morey Sturtevant, Ph. D. 

wesleyan university 
Frank Burnett Dains, Ph. D. 

DEPAUW university 

President Francis J. McConnell, LL. D. 
Adah E. Shafer, Ph. B. 

OHIO wesleyan university 
Charles Graham Dunlap, Litt. D. 

grinnell college 
Selden Lincoln Whitcomb, A. M. 

BELOIT college 

Calvin W. Pearson, Ph. D. 

northwestern university 
The Reverend Claudius B. Spencer, LL. D. 

moores hill college 
Mrs. Edwin Locke 

MOUNT UNION COLLEGE 

Thomas W. Roach, A. M. 

SIMPSON COLLEGE 

President Francis Lorette Strickland, Ph. D. 

ALBION COLLEGE 

The Reverend Henry E. Wolfe, D.D. 

kansas state agricultural college 
Dean Clark Mills Brink, Ph. D. 

university of kansas 

Vice-President William Herbert Carruth, Ph. D. 

Dean Frank Olin Marvin, A. M. 

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KANSAS STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 

Professor Edgar Francis Riley, Ph. D. 
Professor William LeRoy Holtz, A. B. 

WASHBURN college 

President Frank Knight Sanders, LL. D. 

OTTAWA university 

President Silas Eber Price, D.D. 

THE university OF CHATTANOOGA 

President John H, Race, D.D. 
John Alanson Patten, LL. D. 

state university of MAINE 

Perley F. Walker, M. M. E. 

university of NEBRASKA 

Professor Fredrick Ames Stuff, A. M. 

PURDUE university 

Alfred Everett White, B. S. 

BOSTON university 

The Reverend Homer E. Wark, Ph. D. 

swarthmolRe college 
Clara Grace Newport, Ph. D. 

vanderbilt university 
Arthur Tappan Walter, Ph. D. 

bethany college 
Professor Walter Petersen, Ph. D. 

tuskegee institute 
William R. Carter 

college of emporia 
Professor David R. Kerr, D.D. 

MISSOURI WESLEYAN COLLEGE 

President Harvey Rufus DeBra, D.D. 

southwestern college 
President Frank E. Mossman, D.D. 

KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 

President Robert P. Smith, D.D. 



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MCPHERSON COLLEGE. 

President John Addison Clement, A. M. 

COOPER college 

President Ross Turner Campbell, D.D. 

CLARK university. 

James Ralph Jewell, Ph. D. 

marionville collegiate institute 
President LeRoy Grant Reser, D.D. 

CAMPBELL college 

President Thomas D. Crites, D.D. 

KANSAS state MANUAL TRAINING NORMAL SCHOOL 

Principal George Edmond Myers, Ph. D. 

WESTERN branch KANSAS STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 

Principal William S. Picken 

BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 

The Reverend John H. Race, D.D. 

PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN KANSAS 

Superintendent Edward Thomson Fairchild, LL. D. 



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